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4chan's list of top books of all time. How many of these have you read?

https://x.com/andrewchen/status/2005289538189738278 I have r...
chest-beating demanding generalized bond
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
Mind-boggling submissive cuckold
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
Big-titted insecure ticket booth
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
Well-lubricated Hell Roommate
  12/30/25
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nubile passionate fat ankles toaster
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
Rough-skinned Casino
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
chest-beating demanding generalized bond
  12/29/25
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Scarlet sound barrier famous landscape painting
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Razzle-dazzle swollen chapel headpube
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Stimulating stubborn temple kitty
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chest-beating demanding generalized bond
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
Lilac bonkers bawdyhouse
  12/29/25
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cerebral dilemma
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
Smoky Church
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
chest-beating demanding generalized bond
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
Smoky Church
  12/29/25
/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
geriatric dysfunction
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
chest-beating demanding generalized bond
  12/29/25
There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
geriatric dysfunction
  12/29/25
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Stimulating stubborn temple kitty
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
chest-beating demanding generalized bond
  12/29/25
when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
geriatric dysfunction
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
chest-beating demanding generalized bond
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
Razzle-dazzle swollen chapel headpube
  12/29/25
greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
geriatric dysfunction
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
Stimulating stubborn temple kitty
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
Razzle-dazzle swollen chapel headpube
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
180 menage hairy legs
  12/29/25
on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't ...
thirsty adventurous parlor sneaky criminal
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
Abusive Gas Station
  12/30/25
correct
Well-lubricated Hell Roommate
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
Stimulating stubborn temple kitty
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
know-it-all kitchen personal credit line
  12/29/25
lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
thirsty adventurous parlor sneaky criminal
  12/29/25
...
180 menage hairy legs
  12/29/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
geriatric dysfunction
  12/29/25
i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
thirsty adventurous parlor sneaky criminal
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
cocky area trump supporter
  12/29/25
30
flirting nibblets plaza
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
olive out-of-control puppy
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
fuchsia histrionic genital piercing
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
Razzle-dazzle swollen chapel headpube
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
fuchsia histrionic genital piercing
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
Razzle-dazzle swollen chapel headpube
  12/29/25
Same lmao
fuchsia histrionic genital piercing
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
Vermilion flatulent principal's office marketing idea
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
Rough-skinned Casino
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
fuchsia histrionic genital piercing
  12/30/25
Lol cr
dun big pit rigor
  01/01/26
16 lol
Honey-headed Main People Corner
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
Vermilion flatulent principal's office marketing idea
  12/30/25
...
Ultramarine Indecent Roast Beef Mad-dog Skullcap
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
Vermilion flatulent principal's office marketing idea
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
Ultramarine Indecent Roast Beef Mad-dog Skullcap
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
dun big pit rigor
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
180 menage hairy legs
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
dun big pit rigor
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
Vermilion flatulent principal's office marketing idea
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
dun big pit rigor
  01/01/26
93
Comical henna mexican
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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: chest-beating demanding generalized bond

https://x.com/andrewchen/status/2005289538189738278 I have read 11 of these. Should I add the rest to my backlog? I feel like I don't ever wanna read Joyce or any german novelist again or any "philosopher"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49547555)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: Mind-boggling submissive cuckold

49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49547568)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: Big-titted insecure ticket booth

#22 may surprise you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49547569)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 10:43 AM
Author: Well-lubricated Hell Roommate

ran here - wow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49549594)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:02 PM
Author: nubile passionate fat ankles toaster



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: Rough-skinned Casino

25

I always liked

to read and to write

*eyes bug out of head, anus prolapses*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49547574)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:36 PM
Author: chest-beating demanding generalized bond

2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and before that, gaming, before doodikoff made it passé

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49547656)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:07 PM
Author: Scarlet sound barrier famous landscape painting



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548142)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:10 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle swollen chapel headpube



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548150)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:21 PM
Author: Stimulating stubborn temple kitty



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548191)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: chest-beating demanding generalized bond



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548248)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:04 PM
Author: Lilac bonkers bawdyhouse

What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49547577)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:22 PM
Author: cerebral dilemma



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49554932)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:34 PM
Author: Smoky Church

40

The version of this list I remember from when I was a teen on 4chan (so ~2012) was better

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49547646)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:03 PM
Author: chest-beating demanding generalized bond

It was largely manga

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548134)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: Smoky Church

there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pages for novels, manga, digital/visual novels etc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548179)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:11 PM
Author: geriatric dysfunction

/lit/ is filled with faggots

not even wasting my time reading this

its like asking /tv/ for tv show recs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548155)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:13 PM
Author: chest-beating demanding generalized bond

Storm of Steel is a 180 book though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548161)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:15 PM
Author: geriatric dysfunction

There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoehorn dumb shit like infinite jest and a thousand years of solitude and jew trash

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548165)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:22 PM
Author: Stimulating stubborn temple kitty



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548195)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: chest-beating demanding generalized bond

Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I don't want to ever read anything a south american wrote. "magical realism" is the worst genre or beaner slop imo. And infinite jest just feels reddity but I've never read any of it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548203)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:28 PM
Author: geriatric dysfunction

when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off infinite jest non stop, multiple 300+ poast threads about it

bunch of poser fags here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548208)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: chest-beating demanding generalized bond

Recommend some based 180 books

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548249)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle swollen chapel headpube

people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually pretty good imo

yeah it's not perfect but it's better than almost any other "best books" list you will ever see

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548177)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:19 PM
Author: geriatric dysfunction

greatest books of all time

clockwork orange

the great gatsby

spring snow

etc etc

give me a break

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548184)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:23 PM
Author: Stimulating stubborn temple kitty

do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapter at least

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548196)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle swollen chapel headpube

wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548205)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:33 PM
Author: 180 menage hairy legs

how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous for his failed coup+killing self and being a weird homo, no idea people thought so highly of any of his writing

list is fairly credited though. lol'd at all the dostoevsky books so high even though i like them. tells you the type of doods making this list

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548215)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:33 AM
Author: thirsty adventurous parlor sneaky criminal

on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't belong anywhere near the top 1000 books of all time, let alone 100, and reading the rest of the sea of fertility tetralogy reveals it to be a degenerate game played by a mentally ill homosexual.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49549208)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:21 PM
Author: Abusive Gas Station

the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah he's a huge fag

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49550529)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:03 PM
Author: Well-lubricated Hell Roommate

correct

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49550101)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Stimulating stubborn temple kitty

All Along the Western Front should be on there even though its flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548202)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:31 PM
Author: know-it-all kitchen personal credit line

ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonical WWI account.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548213)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: thirsty adventurous parlor sneaky criminal

lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, compiled by homos on 4chan, of gay books written by gay authors for their gay audience

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548259)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: 180 menage hairy legs



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548262)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:53 PM
Author: geriatric dysfunction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548272)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:58 PM
Author: thirsty adventurous parlor sneaky criminal

i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping homo who larped as a samurai. less known is the fact that when he competed in kendo, he also fought, befitting a homo, in the least manly way possible -- the complete opposite of what he describes in runaway horses.

ps. it looks like there are 2 books by him, not 3. that's still 2 too many.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548283)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:55 PM
Author: cocky area trump supporter

24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected given my utter lack of interest in classical literature. I would happily replace 1/2 of these with isaac asimov. Including a lot of the russians. Anna Karenina is trash.

Ok 20/50 for the bottom 50. Still no asimov. I only came back to check. I mean dune ffs but not asimov?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548276)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:56 PM
Author: flirting nibblets plaza

30

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548278)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 8:18 PM
Author: olive out-of-control puppy

I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows:

Middle School: ~4

High School: ~10

College: ~4

The remaining ~10 were when I was in my early 30s or so and for a while chose what to read by simply going down a list of the best 100 novels of all time (which looked very similar to this list) and read whichever ones were under 300 pages.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548372)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:33 PM
Author: fuchsia histrionic genital piercing

I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure crap. Also, the idea that people are sitting around reading a critique of pure reason, the world as will and representation, phenomenology of spirit etc is preposterous. Those books were just added because the people who out the list together are poseurs. You can probably identify the true nature of the faggots who out the list together by isolating the bad picks on the list and assuming they have not read the good picks on the list.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548914)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:47 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle swollen chapel headpube

look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548953)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:59 PM
Author: fuchsia histrionic genital piercing

I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don’t have the time or inclination to read critique of pure reason and am smart enough to know how much intelligence and effort would be required to appreciate the book. These people haven’t read Kant, never will, certainly will never put in the time to understand it, but that’s not going to stop them from putting him on the list along with Hegel and Schopenhauer (they haven’t read them either)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548984)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:00 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle swollen chapel headpube

yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard for me lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548987)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:01 PM
Author: fuchsia histrionic genital piercing

Same lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49548989)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:54 AM
Author: Vermilion flatulent principal's office marketing idea

I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned text.

Read the prolegomena instead if you just want to read some kantian metaphysics for fun

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49549210)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:55 AM
Author: Rough-skinned Casino

Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du temps perdu?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49549211)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:20 PM
Author: fuchsia histrionic genital piercing

Si, je les ai lus tous

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49550526)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:31 PM
Author: dun big pit rigor

Lol cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49554957)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:45 AM
Author: Honey-headed Main People Corner

16 lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49549209)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:59 AM
Author: Vermilion flatulent principal's office marketing idea

95.

List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49549213)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:45 PM
Author: Ultramarine Indecent Roast Beef Mad-dog Skullcap



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49554864)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 3:08 AM
Author: Vermilion flatulent principal's office marketing idea

BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49549214)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:48 PM
Author: Ultramarine Indecent Roast Beef Mad-dog Skullcap

>The Summa at 88

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49554869)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:14 PM
Author: dun big pit rigor

Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fart smelling fest

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49554916)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: 180 menage hairy legs

yes even though your assumption is true

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49555018)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:01 PM
Author: dun big pit rigor

Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful of books

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49555035)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:51 PM
Author: Vermilion flatulent principal's office marketing idea

DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrelevant generation and culture

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49555021)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:07 PM
Author: dun big pit rigor

Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49555046)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:08 PM
Author: Comical henna mexican

93

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2"#49555049)